PSYC14H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Schadenfreude, Ofu-Olosega, The Anatomy Of Dependence
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Understand how ppl"s diff exp in their cultures resulted in their diff ways of thinking. Cultural psychologists inherit standard ambiguities of methods they adopt from other subfields, but many of these methods create further ambiguities when applied to study of people from other cultures. Not recommended to randomly select cultures to study (shotgun method) Interpreting results difficult if no theory guiding selection of the cultures. Let research question guide choice of research samples. Choose samples based on theoretical variable you are investigating: look for cultures that vary on specific theoretical dimension of interest. Degree of universality find two cultures that vary greatly on as many theoretically relevant dimensions as possible if similarity found in psych process b/w two cultures, good evidence for high degree of universality for that process: ex. Rich theory of mind: baka vs western children, children performed extremely similarly on experimental tasks development of theory of mind highly similar across world.
